Clinical and Genetic Factors Associated With Thiazide-Induced Hyponatremia

Chin-Chou Huang1, Chia-Min Chung, Shuen-Iu Hung

  • 1From the Department of Medical Education (C-CH); Department of Medical Research (S-JL, J-WC); Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (C-CH, H-BL, P-HH, C-CC, T-CW, S-JL, J-WC); Healthcare and Management Center (H-BL); Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine (L-YL); Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine (C-CL, C-YY, S-yL); Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital (Y-CC); Cardiovascular Research Center (C-CH, H-BL, P-HH, C-CC, T-CW, S-JL, J-WC); Institute of Pharmacology (C-CH, S-IH, L-YL, J-WC); Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University (H-BL, P-HH, T-CW, S-JL); Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica (W-HP); Institute of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei (W-HP); Environment-Omics-Disease Research Centre, China Medical University Hospital (C-MC); Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung (C-MC); and Institute of Population Health Science, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan, R.O.C. (W-HP).

Medicine
|August 28, 2015
PubMed

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